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6. Araecerus vieillardi Montrouz., 1860. 



As in A. fasciatus, the tibiae spotted' with brown ; but the club of the 

 antenna nearly symmetrical and the foretibia of the male armed with a strong 

 apical mucro. 



Length : 2-7-3-8 mm. 



A series of both sexes from : 



Upolu : Apia, ii., iii., iv., v., vi., x., xi., some on cotton ; Vailima, 600 ft., 

 vi., x., xii. ; Malololelei, 2000 ft., iii.1924. Savaii : Fagamalo, xi.1925 ; Safune, 

 lower forest, 1000-2000 ft., v.1924 (Bryan) ; Lotopa, iii.1917, eating cocoa 

 pods (Swale). Tutuila : Leone Road, iii. 1926 (Judd) ; various altitudes from 

 760-1200 ft., iv., vi., viii., x., and also Pago Pago, iv. (Kellers). 



Tonga Is. : Nukualofa, ii.1925. 



7. Araecerus eudelus, sp. n. (Text-fig. 4). 



Near A. nitidus Jord., Nov. Zool., xxxi, p. 250 (1924), of Fiji. Colouring 

 variable : ground blackish or ochraceous-rufous, centre of pronotum brown, 

 this area usually divided by a pale median line and each half posteriorly bifid ; 

 elytra usually grey marmorated with brown to a vari- 

 able extent, sometimes blackish, spotted with luteous 

 grey ; legs ochraceous, middle of femora and apical 

 half or third of hind-tibia, less often also the apex of the 

 other tibiae and the mid- and hind-knees brownish. 



Club of antenna broader than in A. nitidus. Pro- 

 notum more strongly reticulated, angle of carina more 



acute and the basal angle of pronotum more produced. 

 t, , j Text-fig. 4. — Araecerus 



Punctures of under side large, abdominal segments eudelus, lateral aspect 



1-3 or 1-4 with a basal and an apical row of large of pronotum. 



punctures, in middle of segments usually some additional 



punctures. Intercoxal process of mesosternum triangular, truncate-rotundate 

 at apex. 



In male, the pygidium broader than long, its apex almost evenly rounded ; 

 sides oblique, not parallel ; anal sternite rounded in middle, convex ; foretibia 

 and -tarsus woolly on under side, tibiae without mucro. 



In female, the pygidium one-third broader than long, rotundate-angustate, 

 the apical projection abrupt. 



